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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:37:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: asm info
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> Hi Giuliano. Just out of curiosity: what do you plan to
> "altivec'ize" ? I'm doing it here or there too (the current
> xvid CVS for example contain some altivec stuff).

Nothing. I was just curious. I have a good old bwG3 (yet grrr!).

> Inline assembly is a lot more tricky because mostly of the way
> the registers are "abstracted" by the inline assembler to let the
> compiler assign them.

Yes, I know why, but I don't know how :) I don't want to use
inline asm, I want to be able to read the code that contains it.

Bye.


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